I'd like to move on to NSERC. Tables 1 and 8 on NSERC's own facts and figures page paint a clear and quite worrying picture of basic research capacity in Canada. Since your government came into power in 2006, the discovery component of the people, discovery and innovation streams received $422 million, but in 2010-11, this stream received only $421 million, a $1 million reduction, which I find quite worrying.
On April 18th, 2013. See this statement in context.